Bugs item #857297, was opened at 2003-12-10 03:22 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by gustaebel You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=857297&group_id=5470

Category: Python Library Group: Python 2.3 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Ricardo Martins (aggression) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Tarfile and hard-links

Initial Comment: The attachment has a tar.gz file which contains a file and an hard-link to that file. The Python script unpacks the tar file to 3 locations: the current directory, the current directory specified by absolute path and /tmp). In the machines I've tested it, when unpacking to /tmp (or any other directory that does not belongs to the same branch as the current) the hard-link is not created. Am I missing something ?

I have tested it with the tarfile module that ships with Python 2.3.2, and with the CVS tarfile module, the behavior is the same.

Regards Ricardo Martins

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Comment By: Lars Gust?bel (gustaebel) Date: 2004-03-15 21:54

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I submitted a patch (#916874) that fixes this.

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